OHSAA continues to try to level playing field

9:18 PM,
May 1, 2013

Akron Our Lady of the Elms beat Crestline last spring in a Division IV regional softball game at Kent State.

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Rob McCurdy | Telegraph-Forum

Dan Ross pointed at a piece of paper on a table and asked his listeners to think of that as a public school district.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association commissioner then pointed to the large table top on which the piece of paper was sitting and asked everyone to imagine that is the area a private school can pull students.

"You get a public school that says I'm getting my kids from (the piece of paper), and they're getting their kids from (the table top) and we're in the same division. How is that fair? That is the crux of this whole issue," Ross said. ...